Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Canceling DACA Protections

Issue likely to go to the Supreme Court

President Trump’s bid to cancel a program benefiting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children was rejected by an appeals court Thursday, setting the stage for the Supreme Court to review one of the president’s signature initiatives on immigration.

The ruling, by a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said the administration voiced flawed and inadequate reasons for its decision in September 2017 to terminate the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood...